If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.”  Tom Peters

“Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.”  Gordon B. Hinckley

“When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”  Vietnam veterans’ proverb

“When you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, the only light you have is the light you create.”  Chip Conley

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”  George Bernard Shaw

“The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything.”

“Any man who starts thinking he is indispensable will start staying away from the fighting at the front.  He will spend more time in the rear echelons thinking he is too important to risk going where the shells are falling and men are being killed.  This man is a coward twice over.  He is afraid of himself and of the enemy.  In war every man is expendable.”  General George S. Patton

“If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude or change your job.”  Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must have a superiority complex.  Always attack.  Never surrender.”  General George S. Patton

“The bright attitude is the right attitude.  It is a source of empowerment that can move everyone in the right direction.

“When they run you out of town, make it look like you’re leading the parade.”  Bill Battle

“You are not beaten until you admit it.  Hence don’t.”  General George S. Patton

The Stockdale Paradox: Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties AND at the same time you must confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

“Take what you do seriously but yourself lightly.”  Ken Blanchard

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

“Audacity,audacity, always audacity!”  Frederick the Great and General George S. Patton’s favorite quote

“It’s surprising how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”  Abraham Lincoln

“The last of man’s freedom is his ability to choose his attitude in a given set of circumstances.”  Victor Frankl

“If you’re bored with life—if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.”  Lou Holtz

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to get it!”  Jonathan Winters

“People with humility don’t think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.”  Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale

“Work should be more fun than fun.”

“Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.”  George Halas

“The ‘fog of war’ works both ways.  The enemy is as much in the dark as you are.  Be bold!!!!!”  General George S. Patton

“Happiness is being able to lay your head on the pillow at night and sleep.”  Herschel Walker

“Confidence is contagious.  So is the lack of confidence.”  Vince Lombardi

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”  William James

“Morale is something you don’t put on like an overcoat.  You build on it, day by day.”  Fielding Yost

“Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.”  Ken Blanchard

“The currents that determine our dreams and shape our lives flow from the attitudes we nurture every day.”

“Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”  Roger Staubach

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”